opening doors to growth psychotherapy

welcome

Thank you for visiting my website. Making your way to counseling is a different process for each person. Regardless of the path that brought you to this place, you are welcome here.

I specialize in working with people in transitions around life, livelihood, and loss, and the complex emotions that arise in those moments. I have a deep interest in women's life transitions, including fertility/infertility and pregnancy, postpartum experience, leaving or re-entering the work force, and the empty nest. And I have expertise in meeting people wherever they are on the path of parenting.

I strive to be inclusive of all people, embracing differences of body size, age, ability, gender identity and expression, sexualities, racial and cultural identity, marital status, family structure, educational and socioeconomic status, and core beliefs. All are welcome here, and welcome for exploration.

Deciding to seek support is a courageous step. I look forward to working with you.

The images of hinges, doors, and doorways that you see are inspired by Cardea, the Roman goddess of the hinge. She has the power to be fixed and flexible at the same time, to open and to close, to demarcate boundaries and to breach them, to distinguish the sacred and the profane. Her name was invoked by the Romans when they laid out their cities: the north-south axis of the central crossroad was the "cardo," from which we derive the word "cardinal," like the cardinal points of the compass. And so Cardea is invoked whenever we seek to orient ourselves, to move in new directions, to choose with purpose where to go--and to know where we stand.